This album of 200 images is reproduced with stunning detail and fidelity, and takes us on a magical journey across the globe. Organized into five travelogues, depicting Asia, Oceania,the Americas, the Arabic Lands and Africa, it shows us the world through the eyes of our ancestors. The introduction by Paul Theroux, one of the greatest and most acclaimed travel writers of our time, demonstrates just why what he calls these 'visions of the faraway and the fantastic' had, and continue to have, such a powerful appeal to those at home and to us all.